简单释义：

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v. 抑制；阻止；控制；约束（自己）

网络 束缚；制止；克制

变形：

第三人称单数：restrains  现在分词：restraining  过去分词：restrained  

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完整释义：

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v.

1.抑制,遏止;制止,阻止,拦住;限制,约束
2.压抑,抑制
3.约束;管束
4.克制,忍住,忍耐,耐住;收敛
5.限定,限制
6.拘束,束缚;羁押,监禁
7.制止,防止,禁止
8.挽留
9.压缩
10.使…镇定

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例句：

1. Deepening economic interdependence and a strong desire to avoid another strategic conflict will restrain bilateral frictions.
   经济方面日益增强的相互依赖，以及避免另一次战略冲突的强烈意愿，也将抑制双边摩擦。

2. Mr De Gucht said the WTO needed to be strengthened to restrain such actions.
   德古赫特表示，WTO需要得到加强，以抑制此类行为。

3. But he was able to restrain himself from trying to control the creative process.
   而且他可以抑止自己不去控制创作环节。

4. They dash in on the attack, battering-ram style, leaving it up to the chairman to restrain them before serious damage is done.
   他们是进攻的排头兵，就像用大木桩子去撞城门，要董事长出手约束他们才能避免造成严重破坏。

5. Yet, for all that, Mr Mishkin stuck to the Fed's line that it should not have tried to restrain house prices with higher interest rates.
   然而，即使这样，米什金先生仍和联储同一阵线—即联储不应通过加息调控房价。

6. Trying to restrain the Internet is a game of "whack-a-mole" that cannot be won, says John Morris of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
   民主和技术主义中心的约翰·莫里斯称：“试图限制因特网就像打鼹鼠游戏一样，是注定失败的。”

7. Firms often aim to restrain their rivals by tying them up in lawsuits or forcing them to make concessions to appease regulators.
   他们的目的便是通过各类诉讼阻碍竞争对手或是迫使他们作出让步来安抚监管者。

8. Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
   她一直努力克制着悲哀，现在突然地放声大哭起来。